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[dramatic music] ♪ [cheers and applause] >> hi, guys. [cheers and applause] hello, everybody,lcome to millir and welcome to millionaire. with me today is a teacher from annandale, virginia, who is hoping today's questions are as easy as the ones his students have been asking him. please welcome sal olivo. hey, sal. >> hi, thank you. nice to meet you, meredith. >> nice to see you. >> thank you. >> so what kinds of questions are your students asking you?nt, >> i had a student ask me, "mr. olivo, mount rushmore, is that natural or did somebody have to create it?" as if it was discovered. >> really? >> yeah, i had one guy who really wanted to know about the day that the world went to color, like it was always in black and white, and then one day, it was in color. he wanted to hear about that day. >> how old are your students?

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>> high school. >> high school? >> yeah, unfortunately. >> oh, my gosh. you've got your job cut out for you, don't you? wow. well, what kind of teacher are you? >> history. social studies. >> history. okay, well, we often have history questions on this show, so hopefully you'll get some of those. your wife is here, rebecca, your brother tom, and grandma lucy is here as well. so nice to see you all. [applause] all right, sal, let's see the money in your round 1. >> all right. >> okay, computer, please randomize the dollars. and here are the categories to your questions. we'll randomize those as well. now that everything has been shuffled, are you ready? >> i'm ready. let's go. >> audience, are you ready? [cheers and applause] then let's go. let's play millionaire. [dramatic musical flourish] all right, sal. '60s protest leader jack weinberg is credited with the slogan "don't trust anyone" of what type? >> all right. well, i remember when i joined this group. and it's don't trust anyone

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over 30. so "a," final answer. >> i remember when i did as well. you got it right. let's start building your bank. how much money is behind this question? we're gonna start you out with $3,000. >> all right. >> very nice. 13 away from a million. "designated spaces" is the category. despite being filled with a combustible "lifting gas," the luxuriously appointed hindenburg featured a lounge designated for what activity? >> okay. hmm, combustible. i'm not sure i'm a fan of chamber music, but i definitely wouldn't want to smoke. so combustible... i'm gonna say, "b," smoking, final answer. >> makes sense to me. you got it right. [cheers and applause] all right, computer, let's see the money please. $1,000. up to $4,000. now just 12 away from the million. "tv cameos" is the next category.

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idolized by one of the sitcom's characters, physicist stephen hawking made a guest appearance on what tv comedy in 2012? >> okay. i don't watch the show, but i've heard about it, and i heard it's great. everyone keeps telling me to watch it. and after today maybe i'll watch "c," the big bang theory, final answer. >> it is very good. you got it right. all right, sal. you're definitely on a roll here. let's see how much money is behind this question. what are we adding to sal's bank? how about $25,000? >> all right. whoo! [cheers and applause] whoo. >> [chuckles] >> yeah! >> okay, sal. what, hon? >> i like to see that. >> yeah, i'm sure you like to see that. $29,000. i think that's "missing letters." >> [chuckles] >> making way for the next president, bill clinton's staffers were accused of jokingly removing which letter

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from the old executive office building's keyboards? >> okay, i remember this. i was working in d.c., and we joked about this in ours. it was "c," "w," final answer. >> it was "w." george w. bush. all right, sal. you did put $25,000 in your bank. what are we gonna do this time? how about $2,000? okay, $31,000. 10 away from the million. 6 away from round 2. at that point, you keep all the money in the bank. sought for questioning by sweden, wikileaks founder julian assange was granted political asylum in 2012by whato by what country? >> meredith, i don't know this. i think it's been in the news a lot. i'm gonna ask the audience. >> all right, audience,

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sal needs your help. on your keypads, vote now. [percussive music] ♪ oy, 47% say ecuador. 38% say new zealand. the other two, way down there. >> [sighs] those were the two i thought of. >> mm. >> those were the two i eliminated. [sighs] they feel smart, meredith. i'm going "b," final answer. >> they are smart. it is ecuador. >> whoo! thank you! >> you got it, sal. good job, audience. [cheers and applause] let's see how much money is behind this question. $100. okay. >> thank you. better than nothin'. >> $31,100. it's okay. 5 away from round 2 at this point. 2 lifelines still there. "stage sequels" is the category. and some big money still to be had. the 2012 play abigail/1702

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examines what has happened ten years after the events that unfold in what classic play? >> we talked about this-- we talked about one of these plays in my class last week. and i know it was around the time of the salem witch trials, is where we're at. so i want to make "d," the crucible, my final answer. >> pays to be a teacher. you got it right. [chuckles] >> yeah, it does. >> all right, sal. more money for you, baby. let's see how much was behind this question. $15,000! $46,100. we're gonna be back with more millionaire right after this. hershey's makes smiles. smiles make more smiles. when the chocolate is hershey's.

doing a great job. >> all right, thank you. >> ready to keep playing? >> yeah, i am. let's go. >> let's go! let's play. [dramatic musical flourish] ♪ coincidentally, the last four letters of what state's name are also the first four letters of that state's capital? >> delaware's capital is dover. uh, first four letters. vermont could be montpelier. i don't know anything that starts with "ming" or "sota." so "b," vermont, final answer. >> yeah, it's montpelier. you got it. [cheers and applause] very nice, sal. all right, the last question was worth $15,000. how much is behind this question? we're gonna add another $5,000. [cheers and applause] $51,100. >> okay. >> 3 questions left in round 1. "language lore." could be worth as much as

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$10,000 here. what term's earliest citation in the oxford english dictionary dates to 1888, adding "with sugar on top" in 1994? [laughter] >> well, i don't want to be hokey, but i want "c" to be the answer, pretty please with sugar on top. "c," final answer. [applause] >> it is. you've got your wish. [cheers and applause] all right, is this the $10,000 question or not? it's the $7,000 question. [cheers and applause] $58,100. you're in a great position here, sal, because you have 2 questions left in round 2. one is worth $500. one is wor 00. but you also have 2 jumps left. >> okay. all right. >> "turning 50" is the category. 2012 was the 50th anniversary of all but which of the following "firsts"?

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>> [sighs] so 19--we're talking about 1962. i can eliminate some of these. not enough. i have to jump the question. i have to jump the question. >> okay, no problem. the question's out of play. let's see the answer. first super bowl was the answer. >> yeah. >> all right. you've either jumped over $500 or $10,000. >> come on, $500. >> which one is it? $500. all right. [cheers and applause] okay. sal, sal. 1 question left in round 1, and it is worth $10,000. "this is a bust." i hope not. a california plastic surgeon gave what name to a new type of silicone-based breast implant,

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because its contents maintain its shape when ruptured? >> all right. so something that keeps its shape when ruptured. [sighs] i'm looking at twix and gummy bear, 'cause i'm pretty sure i've seen twinkies messed up. [laughter] >> do you have an image of this breast in your head? >> [laughs] that's a loaded question. >> [laughs] >> i'll never be able to eat these again. but i'm gonna go "c," gummy bear, final answer. >> you'll be able to eat them again. it's gummy bear. [cheers and applause] it's gummy bear. [cheers and applause] sal. sal. >> all right. that's beautiful. >> that question was worth $10,000. $68,100, sal.

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[cheers and applause] you are now in round 2, okay? >> okay. >> how are you feelin'? >> feelin' good. >> feelin' good. you know your next question will be for $100,000. [scattered cheers] it's time to play classic millionaire. [dramatic music] ♪ [cheers and applause] sal. >> all right. >> all right. you are 4 questions away from $1 million. you have $68,100. that money is now yours. it's yours, okay? >> yes. >> you also have a "jump this question." so if you don't know the $100,000, you can see the $250,000 question. >> okay. >> let's take a look at your $100,000 question. [dramatic musical flourish] ♪ on earth, singer bruno mars is said to weigh 140 pounds, but how much would he weigh

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on mars? >> i remember standing on a scale in the natural museum history and figuring out how much you weighed on different planets, but i don't remember what i weighed on mars. >> mm. >> it would have been more than 140. but i--i have to jump the question. >> you're gonna jump the question? >> yeah. >> okay, it's out of play. let's see the answer. >> all right. >> 53.2 pounds. >> i was going the wrong way. >> mars has less gravity than earth, therefore, he would weigh less. you've run out of your lifelines. >> okay. >> you're at the $250,000 question. we're gonna take a look at that right after this. we'll be right back with more of millionaire. [cheers and applause] (añ1ñ;ñ$x

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[cheers and applause] >> and welcome back to millionaire. a very exciting game being played by sal olivo from virginia. he's doing great, $68,100 in his bank, about to look at the question for $250,000. now, when you ca did you have a strategy in your mind if you got up this high? you're out of lifelines. are you somebody who would gamble or not? >> i said i'd be a person who gambled. >> oh, interesting. >> i said that this-- if i jumped the $100,000 and was looking at it,

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that this would be something i'd be willing to take a shot at. >> and are you still feeling that way? >> i am. i don't know if my wife's feeling the same way, but i-- >> [laughs] >> i don't know. >> well, you're the one standing here, so are you ready? >> i am. >> then let's play. [dramatic musical flourish] ♪ [cheers and applause] for $250,000. true to form, the first piece of fiction stephen king ever sold to a publisher was a 1965 story he originally titled i was a teenage what? >> i'm just waiting for one of them to jump out at me. i'm seeing one of them. they're all jumping. >> [laughs] >> i'm picturing teenage grave robbers and picturing-- well, i don't think-- witch hunter seems too modern. grim reaper. oh. it's easier to gamble on your couch. >> yeah, it is. for sure. >> at least for this. >> remind you again,

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you have $68,100. you could walk with that. but you get this right, you'll have $250,000. if you were to miss the question, you'd go down to $25,000, so you would lose $43,100 out of your bank. you'd still leave with $25,000. but... >> it's... [sighs] i was a teenage... stephen king. this is--i got to-- i got to walk. [cheers and applause] >> is that a-- is that a final? >> it's a final answer. >> everybody in your family is giving you thumbs up on that decision. the right answer was grave robber. >> oh. >> it was grave robber. would you have said that? >> i thought-- i was leaning on that. >> oh, well, you know what? you have $68,100 and a very happy wife. i'm very glad you didn't gamble the money. you're so welcome. we'll be back with more of millionaire right after this. [cheers and applause]

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>>question was coca-cola. and welcome back to millionaire. joining me, emily leonard from irvington, new york. and emily, i understand that you saw me last night, and you didn't say hello? where was this? >> [laughs] we were out to dinner, but we didn't want to bother you. >> oh, you wouldn't-- i mean, i was dressed like a slob. i looked terrible. >> no, no, no, no. you were beautiful. >> oh, i--that's not so true. but you know what? that place is expensive, so we need to make some money here. >> absolutely. >> let's take a look at the money in your round 1. okay, computer, please randomize

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your money and your categories. now that everything is all shuffled there, are you ready? >> yeah. >> [laughs] let's play millionaire. >> okay. [dramatic musical flourish] >> all right, emily, here you go. based on whether it has a high or low concentration of dissolved minerals, water is described with what pair of adjectives? >> okay, i thought i knew this one before the choices popped up. and it's there, so i am gonna go with "d," hard and soft, final answer. >> yes, it is. you got it right. nice going, em. all right, let's start building your bank, okay? >> okay. >> $15,000. >> oh, my gosh! [laughs] [cheers and applause] >> [chuckles] i'm seeing this smiling guy behind you. that is mike, your fiance mike. nice to see you. >> isn't he cute? >> that's a nice way to start out.

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for sure. 13 away from a million. 13 away from a million. "not for kids" is the category. according to its donationaritygy toys for tots "prefers not to accept realistic looking" what? >> i am gonna go with "c," weapons, final answer. >> thank goodness they don't. that's right. it is weapons. okay, you have $15,000 so far. to that we're gonna add another $100. $15,100. okay. 12 away from a million. "dance fever" is your category. while the village people gave us the popular song y.m.c.a., the dance that goes along with it was introducedry by thee of what tv show? >> i feel like i should

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totally know this, but i have no clue. >> well, take a second. >> i think that i am going to jump this question. >> okay. question's out of play. you do not have to answer it. let's see the correct answer. american bandstand, where the kids would dance all the time. yeah. >> i'm not sure if i would have guessed that. >> no. it's before your time too. let's see what you jumped over. $7,000. okay. that's a big chunk of change, but there's still a lot of good money up there. >> it's all good. >> and you're in the game, which is where you want to be. now 11 away from a million. "jail break" is the category. what historic jailhouse had only seven prisoners being held when its inhabitants were famously liberated in 1789? >> i think i know this, but i'm afraid i'm wrong. [laughs] >> famously liberated in 1789.

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>> before i chicken out, i'm gonna say it's "b," bastille, final answer. >> i'm glad you didn't chicken out. it is bastille. you got it. >> [laughs] >> you got it. you knew it. you knew it. all right, kiddo, let's see how much is behind this question. we're gonna add another $2,000. up to $17,100. [horn blares] ugh. >> oh. >> that sound means we'rday. well, you get to come back again. yeah, we'll finish the game. you're gonna win $1 million, right? >> that's right. >> that's the right attitude. until then, from new york, everybody, bye-bye. you're doing great. i'm so glad. i have high blood pressure. and when i get a cold i ta the number one pharmacist recommended cold brand designed for people with high blood pressure. coricidin hbp. i know to fight stretch marks you use palmer's. palmer's works and i'm the proof! palmer's cocoa butter formula. perfect formula. extraordinary results. try airborne! with zinc, echinacea, ginger

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cupcakes, no more ding dopgs. well the suspect in the shooting has reportedly hurt himself in jail. the source says that james holmes was hospitalized after intentionally ramming his head into his wall. holmes is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 58 during that midnight showing of the "batman" movie in july. batman movie back in july. the man who confessed to killing etan patz indicted for muering and the man could confessed to

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murdering the boy pit grow hernandez gave an account of what happened. chilly morning much much of the east coast with showers and thunderstorms along the carolinas in florida. snow flurries in the dakotas, foggy in california from l.a. to san francisco. mostly 50s in the midwest, central plains, 40s into the midwest and into the northeast. well, let's chalk this up to the fact it's early in the basketball season maybe that's why this showster did what he did. >> okay, we're going to belgium where one guy is taking a foul shot rebounded by the defender who then tries putting it into his own hoop and he didn't even do that. >> oh, would you, no, four lay-up attempts, finally his teammates save him without a point scoring against them. could that do it again. oh, how is that? >> everyone is down the other

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side of the court, too? come on, man! >> hey, hey, idiot. wrong -- wrong rim. >> sad on multiple levels, my friend. oh, hate to see that. all right. learned the value of a lesson. curt. all right. coming up next, a windy city party in your mouth. how's that for a tease? >> what did you say? mitt romney assigning blame for his loss. ♪ ♪ say what you need to say an to say ♪ ♪ have no fear of giving in

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♪ say what you mean to say ♪ say what you mean to say did you say what you mean to say? >> always do. >> come on. >> you don't have an issue with that. may sound like sour grapes as mitt romney tried to explain his election day loss. >> while talking to some of his biggest donors wednesday, romney kind of echoed his 47% remark suggesting the president bought his re-election victory. here is abc's david muir. >> reporter: mitt romney leaving his hotel the day after the election. next to the convention center where he hoped to deliver the one speech he had written. his victory speech. but now in the week since the election, abc news has learned mitt romney has been explaining his loss to his closest advisers and top donors and it started at a breakfast the very next

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morning. perhaps his most eye opening explanations yet during his conference call with a larger group of donors. romney arguing president obama won in part because of gifts the obama administration had given to particular groups in this country. >> what the president -- the president's campaign did was focus on certain members of this base coalition. give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government. and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote. >> reporter: among those groups the gifts went to, romney discusses the african-american community, young people and the hispanic community, here, offering one of the gifts to them. >> what the president did is he gave them two things. one a big gift on immigration with the dream act amnesty program. >> reporter: and the second thing in order to get hispanic voters? >> number two, put in place obama care which is basically

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$10,000 a family. i mean, it's a proven political strategy which is give a bunch of money from the government to a group and guess what, they'll vote for you. >> reporter: sources telling me this has been romney's argument since the moment he realize heed lost, telling the closest circle the very next morning that america is becoming an entitled society, that some americans are asking government to solve problems for things they can't afford. >> the giving away free stuff is a hard thing to compete with. >> reporter: just when you thought the election was over, david axelrod, obama strategist tweeting after learning of the new audio recording saying, still looking at america through that 47% prism, saying mitt tells donors, the takers did him in. david muir, abc news, new york. >> wow. just trying to figure out how immigration, college and health care are racial issues. and then secondly, i know again, narrative out of the election, folks of color got president obama in. but if you look at all the numbers that were trending in the president's direction,

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weeks, month, in november, his job approval rating was up. direction of the economy poll numbers were up, overall direction of the country was up, it's a bigger story than to say blacks, latinos single women looking for contraception got together to get the president in. part of it. a big parting of it. not the only part of it. for a party that need to bring people back in, there is a pretty divisive things. >> yeah, somewhat surprising. but they ran on that. we need to really limit the entitlement programs. i think that is going to be a challenge to rein those in to bring down the national debt as well. he is obviously looking at it as a numbers game. and he is a numbers guy. >> yeah, it's just after the 47% tape, i thought maybe the country learned some lessons about that. but i don't know, it's tough still. the aftermath is always divisive, i guess. >> you also have donors that just basically gave $900 million to a campaign they thought they were going to win. probably asking, what the heck happened? >> they can't be happy. for sure.

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when we come back, time for the thursday morning, skinny. three simple words. >> sexiest man alive -- the big list is out. "the skinny" is coming up next. @

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♪ skinny so skinny somebody that's not skinny, somebody a bit of a hottie, according to "people" magazine.

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named their sexiest man alive. it is channing tatum. if you saw the movie "magic mike" i know you did. you took all your guy friends, didn't you? >> you wish. >> he is the 2012 sexiest man alive. the alabama-bred actor, his first reaction was like y'all are messing with me. he is also a sculptor. loves to give his wife massages. can't wait to start his family. >> i think he said he found out got the phone call while he was washing his two dogs in the tub with his wife. >> washing his wife. >> washing the dogs. >> they were washing their dogs who had just been skunked. skunked. he is in training to play an olympic athlete in next year's "fox catcher." 195 pounds. when i am not training i get really round and soft. his wife refers to him as the sexiest man alive. >> cool thing. boost his career. you didn't see the movie? >> what? >> you really didn't? >> i really didn't. really didn't have any interest. [ laughter ] i didn't.

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moving on. another very interesting list out in "people" magazine, featuring someone you all know well out there, mr. anderson cooper. andy cohen from bravo stopped by anderson's show and unveiled the news to him. take a listen. >> have you seen this "50 shades of grey." look, the silver fox. look. [ applause ] >> no, no, no, this is not good. first of all, this is a scale of gray haired people. [ laughter ] and i am at the very bottom as the grayest of gray. >> so they put out a list of gray-haired hotties, ted danson, bill clinton, morgan freeman, harrison ford, anderson cooper on the list as well. may not be too happy about it. but kind of funny. >> it is funny. something that is not funny. >> the commish is on the list too. >> the commish? >> from the football segments. okay, jon bon jovi, you know that famous song "bad medicine" kind of apropos with his only

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daughter, 19 years old. found unresponsive in her upstate new york college dorm room charged with drug possession. they rushed her to a hospital. and stephanie bon jovi was arrested, misdemeanor possession of heroin, misdemeanor marijuana possession, criminally using drug paraphernalia. and a violation related to the marijuana. but she overdosed on heroin. friends say she has been on a destructive path. undergoing a drug problem a long time. friends and family have been worried about her getting her to rehab. sometimes she just falls off the face of the earth for extended periods of time. >> hope she gets better. and real quick here. we heard the story this week about the guy who accused the elmo guy of kind of having inappropriate sexual relations. he recanted the charges. now criminal history, the guy, a wannabe model, lengthy criminal record including robbing somebody at knifepoint. if you want to get somebody in trouble. don't think your dirty laundry won't come to light as well. laundry won't come to light as well.

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♪ blame it on the alcohol blame it on the alcohol ♪ oh, that's my jam right there. >> keep going. >> jamie foxx. >> it's hard to imagine improving on rob's singing and improving on the donut. sugar, frosting, cream, jelly. but apparently there is something missing. >> yes, indeed. the aforementioned party in your mouth, as we referred to it earlier in the half hour, this is that story. the thing that's missing, alcohol. ahh. but don't worry, now there's a bakery taking care of that glaring oversight. and frank matthew from our chicago station, wls, has the story. >> reporter: at delightful pastries on west lawrence, they're taking care of two of our indict dietary vices eating fattening food and drinking booze. they're the one and only bakers of drunken donuts. >> drunken donuts are regular

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donuts filled with liqueur, liquored up custard and liquored up jams. >> reporter: drunken donuts are sold for $3 apiece at all three delightful pastries. as you might imagine, the recipes call for fillings with a buzz. >> i am stirring up the passion fruit jelly with the orange liqueur, pouring the the booze in, and stirring up some more so it has the right balance. >> reporter: but adult-only fillings without doughnuts to bill is like a glass without a drink. so deep fried donuts become the delicious surroundings for the alcohol flavored injections. >> this is the last step of our drunken donuts. we are filling them with our boozed up custard. >> reporter: these recipes by the way are nothing new. just ask dover's mother, sasha. >> oh my god. that's been around since 17th century. >> reporter: 17th century. wow. boozy donuts. >> boozy donuts. they're so good, oh, my god. i love them. >> reporter: the custard vodka.

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and the chocolate godiva liqueur. to steal a line from a kenny chesney song "one is one too many and two is never enough." i wonder if these things are legal? >> yes, it is because we cook the fillings with the alcohol. so we have a lot of flavor left over. >> reporter: you still have to wonder can you get a ticket for driving with an open container of these drunken donuts in your car. frank mathy, abc news 7 news. >> looks good to me. looks like mom had a few before she got on the air. >> i need some donuts. one more reason to go back to chicago. >> send them. send them here, please. >> announcer: this is abc's @$ t@?x?x?xç7e/" informing @

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post-election news conference his first in eight months. >> the cia scandal, benghazi attack, and looming fiscal cliff all got plenty of attention. it's thursday, november 15th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." good thursday morning, everybody. i'm rob nelson. >> and i'm paula faris. the president heads to new york today for a look at hurricane recovery. we are going to have highlights of his news conference in a moment. also, this half hour, what is next in the middle east, after israel unleashes a deadly assault that takes out a leader of hamas? >> growing tension in the area of the country. a hot spot. we'll head to the great northwest on the trail of bigfoot. we follow the die-hard big foot hunters determined to track down the legendary beast. and one week until thanksgiving. rub your belly, please. i can't wait to eat. >> it's time.

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>> disney our parent company helping usher in the season with colorful windows and clothes and all for a very good cause. but first, the president takes a one-day break from his budget crisis to view firsthand all the mess that sandy left behind here along the east coast. new york governor andrew cuomo and new york city mayor michael bloomberg will accompany the president has he views the damage. >> the trip follows his first news conference of the president's second term. abc's jonathan karl was there. >> reporter: in his first comments on the sex scandal that brought down his cia director, the president said petraeus failed to meet his own standard but he also praised him. >> we are safer because of the work that dave petraeus has done. and my main hope right now is that this ends up being a single side note on what has otherwise been an extraordinary career. >> reporter: he also addressed the central question -- did the scandal put national security at risk.

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>> i have no evidence at this point from what i have seen that classified information was disclosed that in any way would have had a negative impact on our national security. >> reporter: on the high-stakes talks over the looming budget crisis, the president took a hard line on his bottom line. any deficit deal must include tax increases on the wealthy. >> mr. voters agreed with me on this issue than voted for me. so we have a clear majority of the american people who recognize if we are going to be serious about deficit reduction we have to do it in a balance add way. >> reporter: there was a real flash of presidential anger on the topic of the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi in libya. republicans lashed out at susan rice, the leading candidate to replace secretary of state hillary clinton. because she initially suggested the attack began as a protest. >> why would susan rice not get our vote? i don't trust her. >> reporter: we put that to the president. senator graham said he simply

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doesn't trust ambassador rice after what she said about benghazi. >> if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. but for them to go after the u.n. ambassador, who had nothing to do with benghazi and to besmirch her reputation is outrageous. >> reporter: and a blistering response to that, senator graham issued a statement to the president saying, quote, don't think for one minute that i don't hold you responsible. i think you failed as commander-in-chief before, during, and after the attack. in other words, there is a major showdown on this still to come. jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. >> three republican senators hoping to launch a congressional committee, kind of a watergate style to investigate exactly what happened. former cia director david petraeus agreed to testify on capitol hill tomorrow. only about the september 11th attacks on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. his testimony will be limited to those events only and will not

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deal with the extramarital affair with his biographer, paula broadwell. you have to assume questions will be asked. >> and a lot of people making the point, do we care more about benghazi or what petraeus was doing in his bedroom? fair question. paula broadwell under investigation for storing military documents including classified material on her computer possibly in violation of the law. the army suspended broadwell's security clearance and kelley, this woman right here, the other woman embroiled in the scandal, has been stripped of her special access pass to macdill air force base in tampa. >> i think there are a lot of questions, too, about exactly why these two women had such access to the two men. sounds like there were genuine friendships and family history, pictures attest to that. just seems there was a lot of communication, you know, and between the two very powerful men and these, these, other, jill kelley. so i think a lot of questions

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about that. and also, we talk to dudes about this story, though they make the point that if the director of cia gets busted for, you know, an infidelity, you know, that may be a signal that everyone needs to be a little bit better behavior. the fact that he was using a gmail account for this trying to hide things in the draft folder so nothing was truly sent. but they would have a shared account all in the draft folder that was the best that the cia director could come up with gmail? >> gmail? >> much lesser scale. some of the things you hear on the street. layman's reaction. >> from the dudes. >> dudes. >> like how you guys are trying to cover your hineys. >> not trying to cover but just these are stories that make you go hmm. the president talked about the looming fiscal cliff and what he said at the white house got a lot of attention on wall street. stocks sank because of fears there will not be a deal by end of the your to head off higher taxes and those steep spending cuts as well. the dow tumbled 185 points.

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almost 1.5%. overseas markets are trending lower this morning. the thing is, you hear people in other situations say the president, because now he doesn't face re-election is more than willing this time to perhaps let the country go off the fiscal cliff much more than he was last time around. so a real potential that everyone's taxes go up january 1. this is -- they're not bluffing as much this time around. it really could happen. well, overseas now where israeli aircraft, tanks and naval gun boats are pounding the gaza trip for a second day. >> this follows the military strike yesterday that killed a top hamas leader. abc's alex marquardt reports from tel aviv in the newest wave of violence in the region. >> reporter: the car below is carrying hamas' top military commander. he has no idea he is in the cross hairs. then what israel called a surgical strike. in the blink of an eye, israel had killed one of its most wanted. ahmad jabari who for more than a

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decade led hamas' attacks against israel. the assassination the beginning of a barrage of air strikes on gaza that also targeted hamas' rockets. at least ten people were killed and dozens more wounded. we're at the beginning of the event said the israeli defense minister not at the end. israel's military warned hamas operatives not to show their faces aboveground. hamas which controls the gaza strip and committed to israel's destruction fired rockets into southern israel, they vowed revenge. saying the assassination, quote, opened the gates of hell. alex marquardt, abc news, tel aviv. now to the investigation into the deadly meningitis outbreak. after getting grilled on capitol hill, the head of the fda has asked congress for more authority to oversee pharmacies like the one that sparked this outbreak. the owner of the massachusetts company was also in the hot seat, but he was not offering too much information. >> what explanation can you give the families? who have lost their loved ones? >> on advice of counsel -- i

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respectfully decline, i respectfully decline, respectfully decline to answer on the basis of my constitutional right and privileges. >> pleading the fifth. the pharmacy that distributed tainted drugs had been investigated more than a dozen times in the past decade. so far, 32 people have died. from fungal meningitis and more than 450 were sickened. and those folks on capitol hill never like when folks plead the fifth in the hot seat. that never goes over too well. lots of questions about the health and the -- health history and, safety and sanitation history of that, of that facility here. >> conditions were deplorable when they actually checked it out. well, hostess, speaking of health conditions, hostess twinkies, cupcakes and ding-dongs are in danger of becoming collector's items. >> oh, no, the snack food giant says if striking employees don't return to work by 5:00 p.m. eastern time today, it will move to liquidate the entire company. and if that motion is granted,

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hostess says it will begin shutting down operation ares and selling off assets as early as tuesday. that could mean the loss of 18,000 jobs. >> we don't like to hear that. well some baseball history to report on this thursday. mets' pitcher, r.a. dickey, the first knuckleballer to win the cy young award as national league's best pitcher. dickey, 20-6 last season on the mets' team, can we say underperformed. >> david price won the american league cy young. he had the lowest e.r.a. during a season in which he went 20-5. congratulations to both of those stars. well, 'tis the season here in new york when stores show off their most creative side with over-the-top holiday window displays. >> the famous store, barney's unveiled theirs last night. something special from our parent company, disney.

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characters like minnie mouse like they have never been animated before as super models no less. big boss, bob iger is proud of this collaboration. >> i think it is going to illustrate yet again, the great characters are always in fashion and always in style. >> more good news here, a joint disney, barney's fashion line will be available during the holidays with 25% of the proceeds going to the red cross of course to help victims of hurricane sandy. >> sjp, sarah jessica parker, channeling inner minnie mouse. >> a little fashion icon. well, coming up, the search for bigfoot. some interesting characters running around in the woods. >> don't miss that hard-hitting piece. almost the holiday travel season as we all know. that means long lines, delays, and flight attendants under a lot more pressure than usual. the on board freak-out is next here on "world news now." ♪ ♪

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babies. hmm. >> you don't like the crying babies, do you? >> no. the worst sound. >> but the most stressed-out people on board just may be the flight crew, but now they're getting some help. here is abc's senior national koublgd correspondent jim avila. >> reporter: famously caught on tape, airborne freak-outs. this american eagle flight attendant, roughly inviting parents to, how do they say it, deplane. the infamous jetblue flight attendant steven slater grabbed a beer from the galley. >> are you going to lose your job? >> more than likely. >> reporter: and bolted through the emergency exit at new york's jfk. >> it was intentionally deployed. >> the job has become more stressful because when passengers get on they're already stressed. >> reporter: sheila dale a veteran usairways flight attendant and suffered her own

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traumatic stressful day back in 2009, aboard the miracle on the hudson flight that crash-landed in the river. >> there was a shudder and just a few minutes later, we heard, this is the captain, brace for impact. >> reporter: unable to sleep for days and with no one to talk to dale wished he had some one to call which drove her to set up peer to peer hot line, using 46 volunteers in the second year to answer flight attendant crisis calls at all hours. >> we help people deal with death on board, serious illness on board, security issues, weather issues, turbulence. >> reporter: the association of flight attendants says incident reports show stress comes from passengers too. demanding drinks and cussing. another did some karate moves then rushed at her with his hand out in a choking way. susan gillian became part of the crisis team after an emergency landing made her afraid to fly. >> sometimes i would just turn around and go right back home. and say it wasn't meant to be. i used all my sick time. >> reporter: aviation jobs some

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of the most stressful in business today. flight attendants are learning to comfort each other as they try to prevent any more midair freak-outs. jim avila, abc news, philadelphia. >> wow. i think most people find the holidays, very, very stressful. no matter what you are doing or where you are going. own job where you have to deal with the public that frequently, close contact. that can't be easy for the flight attendants. it can't be. >> and i am never comfortable to fly. everybody is uncomfortable. might be sitting next to someone that has some odor issues or -- a crying baby. >> sometimes, you get the funky person. sometimes, you get the crying baby. sometimes, you get the person who really wants to talk the whole flight. >> i hate that. >> oh, i hate that. please shut up. you can never shut them up. i get why the folks go a little nuts some times. it's never easy. >> i flew back to new york from chicago the other day and i had

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a scarf and put it over my head. so i didn't deal with anybody, including my daughter. >> very subtle. >> sleeping. >> was she behaving? >> i gave her benadryl. she has not been feeling well. she conked out. >> multiple benefits to that strategy. next up they're on the hunt. >> they are the bigfoot hunters out there, seeking sasquatch. more people doing it these days than you might thing including rob. we're going to meet a few of them. it's all next. >> uh-huh. >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations.h1ñ;ñ;ñ;ñ;ñ;ñ$ç

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♪ big foot's coming, you better watch out ♪ ufos, loch ness mon stster, monsters underneath your bed. the granddaddy of them all, big foot. skeptics including both of us here say it doesn't exist. >> the mythical sasquatch eluded people for decade.

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the footprint brings them closer to proving everybody wrong. here is abc's neal karlinsky. >> reporter: you're about to meet a ragtag team of globetrotting researchers who as serious about big foot as the pope is about religion. big foot, sasquatch, yeti, it is often a punch line. people are incredibly skeptical. >> you get punched if you say that stuff around me. >> reporter: like we said, they are really into big foot. never mind the fact that the only thing any one knows for sure about the legendary beast it has been wildly successful at filling tabloids. being the subject of terrible "b" movies and generally serves an an all-around purple line. matt moneymaker, rene holland and james bobo fey are real life big foot hunters. with every bit of technology, night vision gear and sensors they can get their hands on, the

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group travels the world, investigating big foot sightings. why are people fascinated by big foot? >> well, first it is more than one, it's not big foot, it's big foots. there's a misconception out there that we're looking around for this one thing. >> reporter: adventures and investigations make up two and soon to be three seasons of the animal planet show "finding big foot." why is there no good photo or video? the famous photo and film to go with it known as the patterson-gimlin film taken in 1967. to our surprise it is no joke to the big foot crew which studied it and tried to re-create it to determine if it was staged. you mow, most people look at this and say there's a guy in a suit? >> well, they're wrong. it has much more muscle mass. see it in motion. parts of anatomy. if you know what a person looks like, and you know that doesn't look like a person in a costume. that looks like a real animal. >> reporter: they studied tracks too. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: said they say of an unidentified large primate-like

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beast with, you guessed it, very big feet. >> i see it more like a person. just a wild kind of primitive man that, i'm, they can talk the i have heard him talk out in the woods. >> reporter: they say they have identified a big foot call. so here's your chance to turn up the volume on your television and see if anything strange comes knocking. whoo-whoo! just be sure to keep a camera handy if anything shows up. i'm neal karlinsky in seattle. >> awesome. >> well, "finding big foot" debuts on the animal planet, i believe, this weekend. set your dvr. >> ratings will be huge, i have no doubt. coming up, being rewarded for doing the right thing, not the dumb things. >> the morning's "the mix" coming up next. don't go far. g's "the mix" coming up next. don't go far. the truth about mascara is... it clumps.

so what are the most annoying things that happens in a movie theater besides somebody stealing your popcorn and kicking your seat? it is the cell phone. how many times do they have to warn people to turn their cell phone off. if the cell phone rings it is distracting. >> do you turn yours off, you are addicted? >> no. nobody knows. abc is always calling. got to go to work. >> uh-huh. >> cinemark, launched application, cinemode. download it. once you go into the theater, you start the application. it track ares you. if you haven't used your phone. end of the movie it gives you, send you a digital coupon, reward, earn rewards every time you see a movie at cinemark. so basically, you add up your rewards, plus you get discounted tickets. >> see, need incentives in society to be polite. that's sad. turn it off. nice to detach. turn it off in the movie. this is cool, speaking of cell phones. researchers at virginia tech are trying to investigate some kind of new material to put in your cell phones if you are low, power runs out, you can simply,

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shake the phone a little bit. >> like a shake weight. >> yeah. to give it a little bit -- >> you -- >> got to shake it. not that i know what that is like. shake the phone. not a lot. enough for a quick text or quick call. trying to develop this thing. it basically turns vibrations into energy and it's energy that charges the phone. so folks at virginia tech, keep on trying. that would be great. everybody hates when the cell phone runs out. shake it. >> shaking, vibrations, energy. uh-huh. okay, so this honestly, i saw the study. i'm like this is completely true. polled 2,000 women, women spend more time ogling other women than men do. here are the top five reasons. we begin with, we are checking out other women's cleavage. checking out their size. >> height? >> their height. everything. their tan. their hair style. and their clothes. we are trying to size one another up.

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they say most happens on the beach. we love having a good look at other women when they're sunbathing. >> so you're saying, you're checking out the girls more than i am. i'm just talking, not paying attention to anything. >> those are cute shoes. >> checking out the lady. i am not really? that's the theory there. >> a matter of kind of comparing ourselves to one another. our own insecurities. but we also love to see what other girls are sporting. some of the other things. hair color, breast size, shoes, bags and cellulite. by the way i want that skirt. >> ha-ha. see, okay. i can, women are naturally competitive like that. you all do size up the competition a little bit. but no one beats -- you know, a man. we stay in a constant state of whiplash all the time.

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this morning on "world news now" -- president obama talking tough in defense of his u.n.

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ambassador and in advance of important economic talks with congress. >> mr. obama also commenting for the first time on the firestorm around his former cia chief. it is thursday, november 15th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." well, that hour-long news conference at the white house yesterday had a little bit of everything on plenty of hot button topics. good morning, everybody on this thursday. i'm rob nelson. >> and i'm paula faris. we're going to get to the president and the latest with the women, plural, in the petraeus scandal straight ahead. also, we're going to hear from mitt romney for the first time since his election. what he is saying about obama campaign tactics raising a couple eyebrows. then an inspiring story, the young lady who ran a long, a really, really long way. mostly barefoot on top of that. why she did it coming up. >> she is going to need a

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pedicure. >> ooh, man, bunnion city. are you hungry this morning? are you? >> always every morning. >> that's just it. >> fact of life on this shift. >> i have been doing cooking with a guy you mae have seen on tv. we will get hot and heavy in the kitchen with chef marcus samuelsson. plenty of meat in the story. stay tuned. we like stories with substance. >> almost as much as we like double entendre. first, both sides are laying out the battle lines over the looming budget crisis in washington. house speaker john boehner says republicans want to cooperate but not by raising taxes. >> here we go again. president obama addressed the crisis rather and other challenges he faces in his first post-victory news conference. abc's karen travers is joining us from washington with more. hi, karen. >> reporter: good morning, rob. good morning, paula. white house officials say they were expecting the president to get tough questions and yesterday he got them on a wide range of issues.

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in his first press conference in eight months, president obama said the american people knew what they were getting when they re-elected him. and his takeaway from last week's results -- >> i've got a mandate to help middle-class families. >> reporter: the fiscal cliff and mandatory spending cuts and tax increases is looming at the end of the year. >> i want a big deal. i want a comprehensive deal. >> reporter: the president reiterated that he's not backing down from the campaign pledge. to raise taxes on the wealthiest americans. >> a modest tax increase on the wealthy is not going to break their backs. they'll still be wealthy. >> reporter: congressional republicans say they're welling to compromise for a deal, but on that issue they're standing firm. >> we know that you can't raise taxes enough to solve the problem. >> reporter: for nearly an hour, president obama took a wide range of questions. he launched a strong defense of u.n. ambassador susan rice whose been under fire from republicans for the administration's handling of the benghazi attack. >> she has done exemplarily

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work. if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. >> reporter: for the first time, president obama weighed in on the scandal that cost david petraeus his job as cia director. >> i have no evidence at this point from what i have seen that classified information was disclosed that in any way would have had a negative impact on our national security. >> reporter: tomorrow the president sits down with leaders from both parties at the white house. and their big topic, the fiscal cliff. rob, paula, back to you. >> to be a fly on that wall. the president takes a break today from the fiscal crisis ills to visit some storm damaged areas here in new york. the president will meet with residents and first responders during an afternoon visit. thousands of people on long island are still without power. now more than two weeks after sandy hit. new york's governor has asked for $30 billion in federal money to rebuild after the storm.

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>> they need it. well, former cia director david petraeus will be on capitol hill tomorrow to test about the september 11th attacks on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. petraeus was head of the cia when ambassador chris stevens and throw americans were killed. he visited libya shortly thereafter. his testimony is going to be limited to the events in benghazi only. the closed hearing will not deal with his extramarital affair with his biographer, paula broadwell. and the fbi is investigating whether broadwell violated the law for storing military documents including classified material on her computer. the army has suspended her security clearance and jill kelley the other woman who triggered the investigation into broadwell has been stripped of a special access pass to macdill air force base in tampa. >> oh, the plot thickens. wow. >> where is the flow chart? >> woo, getting tough to follow. really tough to follow. trying to sort it out.

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well, for the first time since his concession speech, mitt romney is speaking out about his election day defeat and does sound a little bitter. >> the wound i think are still a little raw. during a conference call with his top donners, romney said president obama won re-election because of quote, gifts to black, hispanic and young voters. so-called gifts include obama care, the dream act, contraception for women and break on college loans. >> what the president, president's campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition. give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government. and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote. >> romney's comments echo the 47% remark he's made during a fund-raiser, suggesting obama supporters relied on government handouts. he also said, he was surprised by the loss. something you will hear about in 2016, where you used to live in louisiana, the governor, bobby

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jindal who was a staumplg romney supporter, that these remarks by romney are categorically untrue. >> he did. jindal is as conservative as they get, what he said, we have to stop dividing the american voters. if we are going to be a competitive party and when elections on the national stage, and continue to fight for our conservative principles, we need two messages to get out loudly and clearly. one, we are fighting for 100% of the votes. and second, our policies, benefit every american who wants to pursue the american dream. period. a lot of infighting between republicans. as they try to sort through the aftermath of the election here. but it is reminiscent, these comments, about the 47% tape. i'm confused as to how contraception, health care or college loans are racial issues and how they are -- they're gifts to people, as opposed to tools to help people live a better or healthier life. >> you have to think this, this phone call with some of the top donors. here he was, they gave basically $900 million.

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i'm sure they had some questions and were demands some answers because he didn't even expect to raise $500 million. there he was raising $900 million. they're look what happened. you were telling us one thing. it didn't pan out. to be that way on election day. >> people write big checks. don't get what they want. you have to tell them something, too. but it seems again, what some could interpret deis vicive comments against the very voters republicans need to win back in their tent in order to be relevant in elections down the road. latinos, huge. young people, huge. they went for obama are 60%. so i don't understand why you would continue to say these things if you really want the gop to kind of do better during elections down the road. >> which is why bobby jindal is distancing himself. >> and looking to 2016. interesting. moving on to other news, the fda is looking into whether the drink 5-hour energy, we know it here, could be tied to the deaths of 13 people over the last four years. the agency says since 2009, the popular, highly caffeinated

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drink cited in 90 reports involving injuries. the makers of 5-hour energy say they take such reports seriously but are unaware of any deaths linked to their product. >> if this shift doesn't kill us, then what we drink apparently is going to. no win. >> something gets us all. right. we know soda can pack on the pounds but a report out this morning says alcohol is almost as fattening as those sugary drinks. >> that's crushing news. cdc scientists say the problem is alcohol much look soda contains almost new nutrients but is full of calories. they found on average, alcoholic drinks account for 5% of calories consumed by adults. soda and other sweetened drinks account for 6%. >> you have to qualify that, though, because there are some alcoholic beverages that are not high in calories. vodka. >> there you go. you have done research. i appreciate that. >> here is to happy hour, folks. well, here's a truly amazing

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young woman who is hopefully resting a bit today. she is rae heim, and she ran into manhattan beach, california yesterday barefoot. >> wow, exactly how she spent most of the last seven months running barefoot from boston to southern california. think about that. from boston to southern cali. and it was all to raise money and awareness for the soles4souls charity which gives shoes to kids who don't have them. >> you have to kind of look around a little bit to see what you can do to help. you don't necessarily need to run across the country to get shoes on kids' feet. >> wow, she raised $10,000 along the way. received donations at 8,500 pairs of shoes. heim says it's easy to help. $1 equals a pair of shoes for someone who needs them. >> her feet actually look pretty good. >> thought they would be bloodied, battered. the guy in the wheelchair there, that is actually her boyfriend who finished the race with her.

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which is amazing. for both of them. great to see that. >> i have a lot of close friends that are runners, covered a couple marathons. actually some people look to run bare feet. there are theories out there it is better for your feet to run barefoot than to run with shoes on. >> whoo. >> look out for the glass. >> good luck with that, folks. man. coming up, some cooking on this friday eve. i'm in the kitchen with one of the most recognizable chefs on the planet. >> and his meat. first, a lottery scam that was years in the making. the original winners seem to be on the losing end big time. you are watching "world news now." ♪ so untrue ♪ honesty is hardly ever heard ♪ >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by soda stream. >> announcer: "world news now" weather brut ought to you by so stream.

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♪ honesty ♪ is such a lonely word ♪ everyone is so untrue this next story is pretty wild. instant millionaires versus instant karma. two brother whose claim to have won millions of dollars on a scratch off lottery ticket are now facing charges. >> i remember when we did the story, why haven't they turned the winning ticket in. they waited six years. well, they are accused of

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cheating the real winner, his name is robert miles, out of a $5 million prize and then waiting years upon years to collect it. abc's steve osunsami has this story. >> reporter: andy ashcar still claims he bought the winning scratch off ticket himself in 2006 at his family's syracuse convenience store where he worked and then waited six long years to split the money with his brother because he worried the cash would negatively affect his engagement to his girlfriend. >> i would hope at some point in the last six years, he had been convinced that she did marry him for love. >> reporter: lottery officials say that was the first clue. love or not, no one waits that long to claim $5 million. >> $5 million. >> waited until now. >> reporter: they put out a detailed press release hoping it would lead them to the winner. prosecutors are calling the brothers cheats and crooks saying they swindled the ticket from a hard-working 49-year-old father of two who was on top of the world.

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in october 2006 he was cashing in the winning ticket at the ashcar corner store confused by the number of zeros. >> what he saw was a 5 and a bunch of zeros. he made the mistake of trusting the person that sold him the ticket. police say that andy ashcar behind the counter told the man he won $5,000, opposed to $5 million and offered to pay him $4,000 on the spot to avoid taxes and complications. john doe took the cash. >> for six years he has lived a pedestrian life, struggling and working hard. and i would be just thrilled to death to see his life completely changed around. >> reporter: if convicted, 34-year-old andy ashcar could face up to 25 years for criminal possession of stolen property. his 36-year-old brother, 15 years for grand larceny and conspiracy to commit fraud. in a statement overnight their lawyers told us the brothers adamantly maintain their innocence and have the strong support of their family and friends.

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>> wow, the guy, robert miles, who's a maintenance worker could get 1.5 million bucks right away. which is good for him. >> and he is a city buildings maintenance worker, so if anybody deserves it, he does. >> indeed. coming up next, folks. let's eat! folks, let's do it! >> coming up my culinary adventure with the one, only, marcus samuelsson. we are cooking it up -- hot -- next! here on "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our high speed internet at home on our newly expanded advanced digital network, a connection you can count on. introducing at&t u-verse high speed internet with more speed options, reliability and wi-fi hot spots than ever. go to our website below to get u-verse high speed internet for just 14.95 a month for 12 months with a one-year price guarantee. it's all the speed you need all at a great price. our newly expanded advanced digital network gives you more of what you enjoy online.

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one meatball one meatball. nice song. if you're not hungry, you will be in two minutes. get ready for our favorite topic, food. >> in harm lem market, marcus samuelsson, adopted by a wonderful swedish family and raised in sweden. he now calls the u.s. home. all of that reflected in his many menus at his many restaurants. for me, he made a personal fave, swedish meatballs his grandmother's recipe. >> i am happy you finally came into my kitchen. >> are you ready to cook? >> i am not sure you want me in your kitchen. what is the recipe? >> meatballs, pickled cucumber. very simple recipe. comes from the incredible book, the culinary council have put together this wonderful holiday and thanksgiving cookbook. so basically, you take a

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wonderful cucumber like this. very simple. just slice them down. and this is something edge can help out. here you go. water. then we have little bit of chili flakes. the heat. chili peppers. mustard. and sugar. going to bring this to a boil. meatballs, that is one dish, everybody knows, swedish, think about swedish meatballs. >> swedish meatballs. ikea? >> no, not ikea. swedish meatballs. that's it. how i got into cooking. i grew up making lots of meatballs as a child with my grandmother helge an old-fashioned recipe. never change the recipe. >> we put heavy cream, an egg. three types of meat, and what is this right here? >> bread crumbs. >> now, we're heating up the

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pan. olive oil. >> little olive oil. and this guy, butter. and just like somewhere around 4:00. think about wow the whole country is eating turkey right now. >> the whole country is in a food coma. >> you sear them off. then they look like that. >> that looks amazing. >> with more heavy whipping cream, correct? >> pickling solution. and add it. you can add in cranberries. the meatballs are so delicious. they're so good, i could put them on the menu right here. you ready to eat? >> uh-huh. i am a professional eater. >> yes. >> that's fabulous. >> good, right? >> amazing. >> ooh. looking good. >> 24, became the youngest winner of "top chef masters." a world renowned chef. yet loves the recipe from his grandma. >> sweet! you should have brought some. >> i know. a. >> sweet! you should have brought some. >> i know. i looked at my options.

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♪ oh someone to turn the page ♪ oh well, it's too bad that basketball players can't get nominated for academy awards. because some of the best acting is taking place right on the hardwood. >> yeah, it is called flopping. players taking dives in order to draw the foul. and it almost makes professional wrestling look real. and, yeah, officials they're cracking down. here is abc's nick watt. >> reporter: kentucky's coach just basically accused duke of cheating, theatrical reaction to the slightest conduct. >> they're flopping all over the place. in the nba they would be suspended. >> reporter: well, not quite. this season in the pros for the first time they're punishing bad acting. >> that is a flop. >> reporter: like lebron's

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tumble against the pacers in the playoffs last season? a bad example for the kids in the stands, right? are you glad they're going to clamp down on the floppers this year? >> yeah, get that out of here. >> reporter: no place in the game? >> that's whacked. >> reporter: and drew one of the first official warning for, names and shame on the website. fines draw $30,000. a bigger punishment, perhaps, is also an instructional video. >> this was an illegitimate basketball play by number 30 in the white uniform. again, this is flop will be penalized. >> flopping almost doesn't do it justice. trickery, deceit. >> when i first came to the league, ain't nobody flop. >> reporter: but they have learned from the likes of soccer. watch this guy using an opponent's hand to punch himself in the place when ecuador played chile last year. you guys have worked for this your whole life, you have got a god given talent. you get to the nba and you fall over? >> yeah, yeah. some guys do it better than

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others. >> reporter: name some names for us? >> no. >> reporter: all right, then i will. chris bosh, heat/bulls, february, last year. flop. >> don't think he is hit. >> we've got the academy awards coming up. >> reporter: nick watt, abc news, los angeles. >> oh, wow. good they're cracking down. people have been complaining for that a lot of years. >> but i think there's just a lot of bad acting going on -- rob, are you okay? >> man, i need some workman's comp. i'm out. see y'all in the spring when it warms up. >> you go, i go. we go down as a team together, flip-flopping. >> medical leave, i'm hurt. oh, lord. >> don't worry about him. ♪ ut him. ♪ @ñbñ?xús1@ú?

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this morning on "world news now" -- restricted access for the women at the center of the

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sex scandal that took down david petraeus. >> the moves against paula broadwell and jill kelley as we hear from the president about the case for the first time. it's thursday, november 15th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." those comments made by the president. they came in response to the first question yesterday at his white house news conference. good morning, from new york, everyone. i'm paula faris. >> and i'm rob nelson. the president commented on plenty of other issues as well. we'll get to some of those coming up. some very interesting moments. kind of, ran the gamut yesterday, the things the president addressed. his plate is full shall we say. >> running over. also, this half hour, say it it isn't so. hostess could today actually be the iconic company's final day in business ever? lunch boxes around the country may never be the same. the countdown is now on. so should we all run out there and stock up on those twinkies?

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the deadline just hours away. dispute with the union, they say if you guys can't come back into the work force, we can't afford this. we are just going to have to go away. >> no more twinkies. >> it's sad. and then -- mitt romney, the guy who ran the lengthy race for president, he has been talking tactics with his biggest donors since his defeat. and those comments getting a heated response from democrats. post defeat post-mortem is coming up. and finally, we talked a lot about anderson cooper, former anchor here on "world news now." we'll get a little bit more about our friend a.c. this morning. a mention that he may not actually like. he made a very interesting list, shall we say, and we have this reaction to that list coming of in "the skinny." stay tuned for that. first new details on the washington sex scandal that is growing more tangled every minute. we now know the identity of the fbi agent who triggered the investigation into the petraeus affair.

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>> he is frederick humphries, a veteran agent who infamously sent shirtless pictures of himself to a key player in the scandal. and president obama now has spoken out about the unfolding mess. abc's mark greenblat has the latest on that. good morning, mark. >> reporter: paula, rob, good morning. the president's remarks came in his first press conference since the election. and he tried to remind the nation that there is more to the david petraeus story than just an affair. the president weighed in for the first time on the sex scandal that captured the nation's attention. and forced david petraeus to resign as director of the cia admitting to an affair with his biographer paula broadwell. >> i have no evidence that classified information was disclosed that in any way would have had a negative impact on our national security. >> reporter: another respected four-star general caught up in the scandal got a vote of confidence from the secretary of defense. john allen is accused of exchanging potentially inappropriate e-mails with tampa

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socialite jill kelley who sparked the petraeus investigation. >> he certainly has my continued confidence to lead our forces. >> reporter: but the military didn't pull punches with kelley while she is under investigation, revoking special access to the are force base in tampa where she was allowed to walk around without a military escort. and broadwell was seen sipping a glass of wine. the reserve intelligence officer is suspected of storing significant amounts of confidential material at her home and could face prosecution. fbi director robert muller, briefed members of the intelligence committees not saying what they talked about. >> no comment. >> reporter: in an about-face, petraeus said he will partially break his silence and testify in a closed-door session about congress on the attack in benghazi. he permanent personally flew there to investigate. and the president said in the end he hopes the paula broadwell affair will be a blip on the radar for david petraeus' otherwise stellar career. mark greenblat, abc news, new

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york. paul, rob, back to you. >> thank you, mark. well, the president spoke on a range of other challenges he faces after winning a second term. on the budget crisis, the president said he was given a mandate by middle-class voters to protect their interests. and he said again that he wanted the rich to pay more taxes as a way of helping reduce the growing deficit. the president said he would address global climate change as well. one of the hot button moments came when he addressed criticism of u.s. ambassador susan rice. he said critics should go after him not after his ambassador. that really was when the president was most charged up and animated for sure yesterday. really, the -- it's, senator john mccain, has issue with how this was handled as well as lindsay graham, and lindsay graham with a pretty fiery statement said, mr. president don't think for one minute that i don't hold you ultimately responsible for benghazi. i think you failed as commander-in-chief, before, during and after the attack. given what i know now i have no intention of promoting any one who is up to their eyeballs in

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the benghazi debacle. and susan rice currently u.n. ambassador, being floated as hillary clinton's successor. >> also interesting, some report going on about how, times have changed though. because obviously, many years ago when they were nominated condoleezza rice to be secretary of the state at the time, she was national security adviser she had gone around saying about the weapons of mass destruction in iraq, other intelligence. ended up proving false at the time. mccain stood by her. despite obviously the wrong information that she was disseminating at the time. saying "i am not going to mention my colleague's name. some of the remarks aimed at her during the hearings, challenged her integrity. we can disagree on policy and a lot of things but i think it is clear that condoleezza rice is a person of integrity. so, it is interesting. how times have changed. what, really, a parallel between, you know there is intelligence failures then there are massive intelligence failures he didn't have an issue with condoleezza and wmds, now

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taking issue with susan rice and benghazi, the difference seven years can make. >> the president is keeping an eye on the growing violence in the middle east. israel carried out more than 50 air strikes in gaza including this one. which killed the military leader of hamas. egypt withdrew its ambassador to israel in protest of the attack last night. the palestinian officials asked the u.n. security council to halt the attacks. oil giant bp is expected to plead guilty today for its role in the massive 2010 oil spill off the gulf coast. according to terms reached with the justice department, bp would admit negligence and other failures leading up to that spill, and would also pay fines probably to the tune of billions of dollars. in exchange though the company would be exempt from future prosecution. a press conference with a.g., eric holder set for new orleans later today reportedly. ticktock, the clock is ticking down to what could be the end of an american institution.

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>> snack food giant hostess says if striking employees don't return to work by 5:00 p.m. eastern time to day, it will file a motion of bankruptcy court to liquidate the entire company. if that motion is granted the company could shut down as early as tuesday meaning that no more twinkies, no more cupcakes, no more ding dongs. well, the suspect in the colorado movie theater shooting has reportedly injured himself in jail. prompting a judge to postpone his hearing. the source says that james holmes was hospitalized after intentionally ramming his head into a wall in his cell. defense attorneys however refused to elaborate on his condition. holmes is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 58 during that midnight showing of the batman movie back in july. the man who confessed to killing etan patz indicted for murdering the boy. police say pedro hernandez gave a detailed account of what happened to the child more than 30 years ago.

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defense lawyers say that hernandez is mentally ill. with that here is your thursday forecast, everybody. chilly morning along much of the east coast. with showers and thunderstorms from the carolinas through florida. snow flurries in the dakotas. foggy in california from l.a. to san francisco. >> mostly 50s in the pacific northwest. central rockies, great plains. 30 in fargo. 40s from the midwest into the northeast. well, let's chalk this one up to the fact it is early in the basketball season. maybe that's why this youngster did what he did. >> we are going to go to belgium where one guy is taking a foul shot. rebounded by the defender who then tries putting it into his own hoop. he can't even do that. >> oh, wow. >> no, four lay-up attempts. finally his teammates save him without a point being scored against them. no wonder we never see them, see them pass the ball to that dude again. oh. how embarrassing. everyone is on the other side of the court. >> one, two.

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>> the other dude is like -- come on, man! >> hey, hey, idiot, wrong -- wrong rim! >> sad on multiple levels, my friend. oh. uh, hate to see that. learned a valuable lesson. coming up next, a windy city party in your mouth. how's that for a tease? >> what did you just say? >> hey, stick around for that one. >> but first -- mitt romney, assigning blame for his loss. you are watching "world news now." ♪ say what you mean to say ♪ say what you mean to say ♪ say what you mean to say ♪ have no fear of giving in ♪ have no fear of giving in

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♪ say what you mean to say ♪ say what you meansay ♪ say what you mean to say did you say what you mean to say? >> always do. >> come on. >> you don't have an issue with that. well, it may sound like sour grapes as mitt romney tries to explain his election day loss. >> while talking to some of his biggest donors wednesday, romney kind of echoed his 47% remark suggesting the president bought his re-election victory. here is abc's david muir. >> reporter: mitt romney leaving his hotel the day after the election. next to the convention center where he hoped to deliver the one speech he had written. his victory speech. but now in the week since the election, abc news has learned mitt romney has been explaining his loss to his closest advisers and top donors and it started at a breakfast the very next

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morning. perhaps his most eye opening explanations yet during his conference call with a larger group of donors. romney arguing president obama won in part because of gifts the obama administration had given to particular groups in this country. >> what the president -- the president's campaign did was focus on certain members of this base coalition. give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government. and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote. >> reporter: among those groups the gifts went to, romney discusses the african-american community, young people and the hispanic community, here, offering one of the gifts to them. >> what the president did is he gave them two things. one a big gift on immigration with the dream act amnesty program. >> reporter: and the second thing in order to get hispanic voters? >> number two, put in place obama care which is basically $10,000 a family. i mean, it's a proven political

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strategy which is give a bunch of money from the government to a group and guess what, they'll vote for you. >> reporter: sources telling me this has been romney's argument since the moment he realize heed lost, telling the closest circle the very next morning that america is becoming an entitled society, that some americans are asking government to solve problems for things they can't afford. >> the giving away free stuff is a hard thing to compete with. >> reporter: just when you thought the election was over, david axelrod, obama strategist tweeting after learning of the new audio recording saying, still looking at america through that 47% prism, saying mitt tells donors, the takers did him in. david muir, abc news, new york. >> wow. just trying to figure out how immigration, college and health care are racial issues. and then secondly, i know again, narrative out of the election, folks of color got president obama in. but if you look at all the numbers that were trending in the president's direction,

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weeks, if not months ahead of november, his job approval rating was up. direction of the economy poll numbers were up, overall direction of the country was up, it's a bigger story than to say blacks, latinos single women looking for contraception got together to get the president in. part of it. a big part of it but it's not the only part of it. for a party that needs to bring people back in, there is a pretty divisive thing. >> yeah, somewhat surprising. but they ran on that. we need to really limit the entitlement programs. i think that is going to be a challenge to rein those in to bring down the national debt as well. he is obviously looking at it as a numbers game. and he is a numbers guy. >> yeah, it's just after the 47% tape, i thought maybe the country learned some lessons about that. but i don't know, it's tough still. the aftermath is always divisive, i guess. >> you also have donors that just basically gave $900 million to a campaign they thought they were going to win. probably asking, what the heck happened? >> they can't be happy. for sure. when we come back, time for

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the thursday morning "the skinny." three simple words. >> sexiest man alive -- the big list is out. "the skinny" is coming up next. stay with us. ñ

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♪ skinny so skinny somebody that's not skinny, somebody a bit of a hottie, according to "people" magazine. named their sexiest man alive. it is channing tatum.

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if you saw the movie "magic mike" i know you did. you took all your guy friends, didn't you? >> you wish. >> he is the 2012 sexiest man alive. the alabama-bred actor, his first reaction was like y'all are messing with me. he is also a sculptor. loves to give his wife massages. can't wait to start his family. >> i think he said he found out got the phone call while he was washing his two dogs in the tub with his wife. >> washing his wife. >> washing the dogs. >> they were washing their dogs who had just been skunked. he is in training to play an olympic athlete in next year's "fox catcher." 195 pounds. when i am not training i get really round and soft. his wife refers to him as the sexiest man alive. >> cool thing. boost his career. you didn't see the movie? >> what? >> you really didn't? >> i really didn't. really didn't have any interest. [ laughter ] i didn't. moving on. another very interesting list

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out in "people" magazine, featuring someone you all know well out there, mr. anderson cooper. andy cohen from bravo stopped by anderson's show and unveiled the news to him. take a listen. >> have you seen this "50 shades of grey." look, the silver fox. look. [ applause ] >> no, no, no, this is not good. first of all, this is a scale of gray haired people. [ laughter ] and i am at the very bottom as the grayest of gray. >> so they put out a list of gray-haired hotties, ted danson, bill clinton, morgan freeman, harrison ford, anderson cooper on the list as well. may not be too happy about it. but kind of funny. >> it is funny. something that is not funny. >> the commish is on the list too. >> the commish? >> from the football segments. okay, jon bon jovi, you know that famous song "bad medicine" kind of apropos with his only daughter, 19 years old. found unresponsive in her upstate new york college dorm

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room charged with drug possession. they rushed her to a hospital. and stephanie bon jovi was arrested, misdemeanor possession of heroin, misdemeanor marijuana possession, criminally using drug paraphernalia. and a violation related to the marijuana. but she overdosed on heroin. friends say she has been on a destructive path. undergoing a drug problem a long time. friends and family have been worried about her getting her to rehab. sometimes she just falls off the face of the earth for extended periods of time. >> hope she gets better. and real quick here. we heard the story this week about the guy who accused the elmo guy of kind of having inappropriate sexual relations. he recanted the charges. now criminal history, the guy, a wannabe model, lengthy criminal record including robbing somebody at knifepoint. if you want to get somebody in trouble. don't think your dirty laundry won't come to light as well. won't come to light as well.

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♪ ♪ blame it on the alcohol blame it on the alcohol ♪ oh, that's my jam right there. >> keep going. >> jamie foxx. >> it's hard to imagine improving on rob's singing and improving on the donut. sugar, frosting, cream, jelly. but apparently there is something missing. >> yes, indeed. the aforementioned party in your mouth, as we referred to it earlier in the half hour, this is that story. the thing that's missing, alcohol. ahh. but don't worry, now there's a bakery taking care of that glaring oversight. and france frank mathy from our chicago station wls has the story. >> reporter: at delightful pastries on west lawrence, they're taking care of two of our dietary vices, eating fattening food and drinking booze.

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they're the one and only bakers of drunken donuts. >> drunken donuts are regular donuts filled with liqueur, liquored up custard and liquored up jams. >> reporter: drunken donuts are sold for $3 apiece at all three delightful pastries. as you might imagine, the recipes call for fillings with a buzz. >> i am stirring up the passion fruit jelly with the orange liqueur, so i'm pouring the booze in, stirring up some more so it has just the right balance. >> reporter: but adult-only fillings without doughnuts to bill is like a glass without a drink. so deep fried donuts become the delicious surroundings for the alcohol flavored injections. >> this is the last step of our drunken donuts. we are filling them with our boozed up custard. >> reporter: these recipes by the way are nothing new. just ask dover's mother, sasha. >> oh my god. that's been around since 17th century. >> reporter: 17th century. >> yes. >> reporter: wow, boozy doughnuts. >> boozy donuts. they're so good, oh, my god.

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i love them. >> reporter: the custard vodka. and the chocolate godiva liqueur. to steal a line from a kenny chesney song "one is one too many and two is never enough." i wonder if these things are legal? >> yes, it is because we cook the fillings with the alcohol. so we have a lot of flavor left over. >> reporter: you still have to wonder can you get a ticket for driving with an open container of these drunken donuts in your car. frank mathy, abc news 7 news. >> looks good to me. looks like mom had a few before she got on the air. >> i need some donuts. one more reason to go back to chicago. >> send them. send them here, please. >> announcer: this is abc's "world news now," informing [ female announcer ] now get high speed internet at home on our newly expanded advanced digital network, a connection you can count on. introducing at&t u-verse high speed internet with more speed options, reliability and wi-fi hot spots than ever. go to our website below to get u-verse high speed internet

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